| 词条 | Leonard Bishop |
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| name = Leonard Bishop | birth_date = {{birth date|1922|10|17|mf=y}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|2002|12|20|1922|10|17}} | death_place = Manhattan, Kansas, United States | occupation = Novelist, | nationality = American (Jewish-American) | period = 1952–2002 | genre = Fiction | movement = | notableworks =Dare to Be A Great Writer (non-fiction) | spouse = {{marriage|Cecil Bishop}} | children = 5 | awards = Gold Medal (1961,1962) | website = {{URL|https://leonardbishop.com/}} }}Leonard Bishop (October 17, 1922 – December 20, 2002) was an American novelist, writing teacher, and newspaper columnist. He wrote for over five decades, only stopping two weeks before his death in 2002.[1] He has worked alongside other famous authors such as Mario Puzo, William Styron, Joseph Heller, Richard Wright, and Harlan Ellison. Bishop has been recognized as one of the seven top writing teachers in the United States. His career in writing and teaching is archived at Boston University in the Leonard Bishop Collection.[2] BiographyLeonard Bishop was born October 17, 1922, in New York, NY, where he grew up. He was raised in extreme poverty, spending a year with his older brother, Bernard, in a catholic orphanage because his mother, Esther, couldn’t support them.[3] Meanwhile, his father was a criminal, a heroin addict, and a wife beater who spent time in various prisons around New York and New Jersey. To make matters worse, he was born with clubfoot and dyslexia.[3] During his early years, teachers would call him stupid and became accustomed to the dunce hat.[3] He had a difficulty for learning and soon dropped out. Leonard began to steal to help support his family but was sent to a camp in Maine to learn a trade. After completing the program he became a hobo and traveled around the country on trains.[1] While traveling a woman hobo taught him how to read and gave him the book Beau Geste.[3] He became inspired and wanted to achieve more out of life, so he went home and enrolled in The New School of Social Research. Leonard attended creative writing classes here. Soon people noticed that he had a gift in writing; his early works were vulgar and powerful.[3] After just three months of college he left. Soon after he entered a writing contest and won $500.[3] The same day his brother Bernard called him saying that their father was outside, with a gun in hand, waiting for their mother to come home. Leonard attacked his father and took the gun away.[3] Leonard later wrote “I was deeply shocked, not because he was trying to kill my mother (he had tried it several times before) but because I could see myself ten years from now, standing inside my father’s skin.”[3] In 1952 his first novel Down All Your Streets was published. After the Dial Press offered him a contract.[3] From here he wrote about his experiences in poverty and violence. Following several years of success he started to teach. In the 50’s he started to teach at Columbia University.[3] His books Make My Bed in Hell and The Desire Years were both recognized by the Gold Medal Books.[3] In the late 60’s he traveled to the west coast when one of his books, Against Heaven’s Hand, was being made into a movie. The movie was later called “Seven In Darkness”. When the movie was finished he stayed out there and began to teach again. He taught at multiple places but ended at University of California, Berkeley.[3] In the early 80’s Leonard moved to Kansas when he married his second wife Celia.[3] Here he taught private groups. In the autumn of 2002, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He went through both radiation and chemotherapy. He soon caught pneumonia and on December 19, 2002 at the Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, Kansas he died at the age of 80. He died fulfilled because he had accomplished something. He wrote ““I was no longer a low bum, a hobo, a loser, I had faced the challenge of Opportunity and dared to claim it for my life.”[3] List Of Works
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|last=Archival Research Center|first=Howard Gotlieb|title=Bishop, Leonard|url=http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/archives-cc/app/details.php?id=7437&return=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bu.edu%2Fphpbin%2Farchives-cc%2Fapp%2Fbrowse.php%3Fletter%3DB%26sort_column%3Dcomposite_name%26sort_direction%3DASC%26per_page%3D10%26offset%3D60%26set_page%3Dnext|publisher=Boston University|accessdate=27 May 2013}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bishop, Leonard}}2. ^{{cite web|last=Bishop|first=Leonard|title=Biography|url=http://leonardbishop.com/biography/|work=Website|publisher=Blog|accessdate=29 May 2013}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 {{cite web|last=K.P.|first=Kollenborn|title=A Dollar in the Jar: Tribute to Leonard Bishop|url=http://kpkollenborn.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/dollar-in-jar-tribute-to-leonard-bishop.html|publisher=K.P. Kollenborn|accessdate=27 May 2013}} 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 {{cite web|last=Bishop|first=Matt|title=Leonard Bishop, 1922-2002|url=http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/bishop/family/leonard/index.html|work=Blog|publisher=Matt Bishop|accessdate=27 May 2013}} 9 : 1922 births|2002 deaths|20th-century American novelists|20th-century American male writers|American columnists|American male novelists|Writing teachers|20th-century American non-fiction writers|American male non-fiction writers |
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